LaundroMat
Re:ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage
on Thursday September 03, 2026 @01:44AM (#49546334)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa
I wonder why you think the country would suffer?
Re:Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election
on Saturday August 15, 2026 @02:06AM (#49308099)
I wonder how many people who wouldn't normally vote for Farage did so because they knew voting him back in would re-open the investigation against him.
Re:EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into appli...
on Saturday July 18, 2026 @01:03PM (#48959901)
Isn't that recycling instead of destroying?
Re:The Anti-Palantir Manifesto
on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @12:20PM (#48749322)
Just state your argument.
Re:Ask HN: Where is our profession (programmer) going?
on Thursday June 25, 2026 @01:08AM (#48669168)
"A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must never make a management decision"
-- Internal IBM training manual, 1979
Re:Bricks and Minifigs Parts Ways with Franchise Owners
on Friday June 05, 2026 @12:29AM (#48407949)
there -> their
(Sorry, I couldn't resist).
Re:Viral victory: Iran is beating the land of tech bros in the social ...
on Thursday April 16, 2026 @02:10AM (#47789281)
I don't think it's aimed at them anyway.
Re:LibreOffice and the Art of Overreacting
on Thursday March 26, 2026 @02:32PM (#47534038)
I like to call that dark number the "conversion aversion".
Re:They're Vibe-Coding Spam Now
on Monday March 23, 2026 @02:51AM (#47486191)
A Belgian ethical hacker showed how insecure these phishing platforms are: https://inti.io/p/how-i-infiltrated-phishing-panels
(By the way, the perpetrators are closer to home than Nigeria).
Re:The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
on Saturday February 14, 2026 @01:00AM (#47012020)
Because you want to support the platform or because you don't want to see ads?
Re:The First Eighteen Lines of the Waste Land (1989)
on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @05:11PM (#46787759)
It's about the poem by T.S. Eliot.
Re:Our approach to advertising
on Friday January 16, 2026 @06:56PM (#46653799)
They even used to say ads were a bad idea [0].
[0] https://indieresearch.net/2014/03/30/advertising-and-mixed-m...
Re:The Art of Atari (2016)
on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @01:59AM (#45820132)
Aargh. I've been wanting a large poster of Missile Command for a while now, but can't seem to find one at a decent price. Having one printed is difficult too as I can't find high-res, large image files of it.
Re:Abandonware of the web: do you know that there is an HTML tables API?
on Saturday November 01, 2025 @12:55PM (#45783218)
Thereby forgetting that some people like to open links in a new tab.
Re:"Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces
on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @02:51AM (#45258877)
Oh, that's interesting! I always thought French-speaking people (I'm from the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium) actually expected this type of language.
Re:Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others
on Friday September 05, 2025 @08:19AM (#45137670)
Choice quote from the opposition in the article you linked to:
"If social media is shut down, the country will become chaotic."
Re:The forgotten meaning of "jerk"
on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @02:15AM (#44959142)
I learned about it through Freaks and Geeks, so I was in the right mood when watching The Jerk decades after its release.
Re:The forgotten meaning of "jerk"
on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @02:12AM (#44959128)
Where was the cutoff point?
Re:Commodore acquired for a 'low seven figure' price โ CEO from retro ...
on Monday June 30, 2025 @01:56AM (#44419898)
Adding noise to the signal here, but "Don't look at the balance sheet as the game. Look at the people and the assets as elements used to stage a show, and put on a show that people want to believe in." is a quote I want to remember forever.
Re:How to post when no one is reading
on Monday June 02, 2025 @01:18AM (#44155991)
Please don't do this here.
Re:Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails
on Monday May 26, 2025 @04:39PM (#44101451)
It makes you wonder whether they use the app themselves...
Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about...
on Sunday May 18, 2025 @02:10PM (#44023249)
Why sell tickets then? :)
Re:Dr. Dobb's Journal Interviews Jef Raskin (1986)
on Thursday May 15, 2025 @04:14PM (#43998854)
Cookie popup keeps popping up if I allow only necessary cookies on an article about frustrating interactions with technology. (FF on Android)
Re:UnitedHealth Group is under criminal investigation for possible Med...
on Thursday May 15, 2025 @12:55AM (#43991970)
This investigation is about them defrauding the government, not their customers.
Them (allegedly) having it both ways is very cynical, but entirely predictable. It's utterly amazing someone believed a service like health-care should be driven by profit to ensure the best outcomes.
Re:Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996
on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @01:33PM (#43918500)
One reason for the existence of albums were distribution costs: it was cheaper to produce, ship and store 10 songs on a single disc than shipping 10 separate discs.
Re:Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996
on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @01:31PM (#43918464)
Didn't he also bring out a song where the lyrics were algorithmically generated?
Re:Is Outbound Going to Die?
on Monday April 28, 2025 @05:12PM (#43826168)
I have a similar annoyance: the obvious ways marketeers try to get me in their funnel (I call it conversion aversion). It's hard to measure, so it's not taken into account by marketeers, but I'm quite certain the amount of people annoyed by conversion optimization tactics represent a lot of potentially lost sales.
Re:Is Outbound Going to Die?
on Monday April 28, 2025 @05:03PM (#43826087)
Spoken like a real Theodore Levitt-fan!
I've been reading up on 70s and 80s technology firm histories (including game consoles) and it strikes me that marketing back then was much more strategic, much more about understanding the market, the value customers seek and how to deliver it.
Marketing today feels like a grift.
Re:Temu pauses Google Ads, falls from #2 to #19 in app store
on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @01:44AM (#43689349)
Maybe the law should impose quality and environmental standards instead of tariffs. But no, that would hurt domestic businesses.
Re:RFK Jr says Deep State 'is real,' called FDA employees 'sock puppet...
on Saturday April 12, 2025 @01:30AM (#43661600)
A civil servant's job is not just to do what the executive branch asks them to do.